Opt-in, separate from sign-in

Signing in with Strava only confirms who you are — it never reads your activities. Importing runs is a separate, explicit step: from Settings → Connected Accounts you choose Connect activities, and Strava asks you to grant activity access. You can do this even if you signed in with email instead of Strava.

What gets imported

Pheidi reads your runs — road, trail, and treadmill/virtual runs. Rides, swims, and other activity types are skipped. Because you grant full activity access, runs you've marked Only You on Strava import too, so nothing silently goes missing. Distance and moving time come straight from the activity; Pheidi converts them to your units.

How a run marks a workout done

When a run lands on a day that has a scheduled run, Pheidi marks that workout complete and fills in your actual distance and time. If you run more than once on the same day, the runs are added together for that workout. A run on a day with no scheduled run — or after you've already logged that day yourself — is recorded as an extra activity and never overwrites what you logged by hand.

When it happens

New runs usually appear within a minute or two of finishing — Strava notifies Pheidi as soon as an activity is saved. As a safety net, Pheidi also re-checks connected accounts every hour, so nothing is missed if a notification is ever delayed. The first time you connect, Pheidi backfills recent runs so your current plan reflects what you've already done.

Edits and deletes

If you delete a run on Strava, Pheidi unwinds it: the workout it had completed reverts to pending (or recomputes from any other runs that day). Your Strava data stays the source of truth.

Privacy and disconnecting

Your Strava access is stored encrypted and is only ever used to read your activities — Pheidi never posts anything back to Strava. You can stop syncing any time from Settings: that revokes Pheidi's access and deletes the imported-activity link. If you signed in with Strava, stopping sync keeps your sign-in working — you won't be locked out.

Strava activity sync lives inside the Pheidi app — sign in to connect your runs.

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